Word: dependably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about."-James A. McN. Whistler...
That far-end clearance-once the hope of China-would be futile if Kunming fell. And in any case it was plain that China, in her darkest days ahead, would have to depend upon airborne supplies. General Wedemeyer said the air tonnage was increasing. But as the Japs advanced, it was also clear to the wearied, worried Chinese that supplies by air could not be the complete answer, that what the Allies had done thus far had not been enough...
...seems to have some curious authority over her genteel relatives; an overseer (Elisha Cook Jr.), who starts courting her with all the cozy intimacy of a vampire bat; and a local physician (Franchot Tone) who, somewhat to the detriment of the picture, is obviously a man she can depend...
Because exhibitions as varied in content as "Art of the United Nations" depend considerably on good showmanship, the Institute hired a topnotch designer to install it: 37-year-old, Hungarian-born Gyorgy Kepes (pronounced Keppish), now teaching at Brooklyn College. It was his idea that an antique Persian medallion carpet should hang free from the wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes...
...they had it going in eight days. No. 6, hopefully named The Rangoon Limited, went to work last week. But in the absence of coal, the wood-burning engines are limited to short runs. The M.M. & M., which now extends southward beyond Mo-gaung, will have to depend on the jeep to pull it through eventually to Mandalay...